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blue bloom, and of great excellence ; matures before tbe 

 Green Gage. 



Coe's Golden Drop. A superb variety, very large, late, 

 beautiful, and delicious ; admirably suited to pot culture. 



Reine Claude de Bavay. A late variety of the Green 

 Gage family ; not attractive in appearance, being of a dull 

 green, but large, late, and excellent. 



No doubt many other of our American varieties, of which 

 Mr. Br^haut enumerates Denniston's Superb, will prove val- 

 uable, but they have not yet, to our knowledge, been tried. 

 We would enumerate the General Hand, Ives's Seedling, 

 Imperial Green Gage, Smith's Orleans, and Lawrence, as 

 worthy of trial. 



Pears. — For pot culture all the trees should be upon the 

 quince ; and if such varieties are wanted as do not grow well 

 on that stock they should be double worked. On the pear 

 it is difficult to get them to fruit early. Of course it is desir- 

 able to grow only the large fruits, provided they are good, of 

 which, fortunately, we have plenty. Not that a small fruit is 

 not worthy of attention, but because they are partly for orna- 

 mental purposes, and the large fruits set off the trees to great 

 advantage. Some of the most desirable are the Bartlett, 

 Beurr^ Clairgeau, Ducliesse, Louise Bonne, and Urbaniste, for 

 autumn; and the Beurre Diol, Winter Nelis, Glout Morceau, 

 and Easter Beurre, for early and late winter. The Beurre 

 Clairgeau is very handsome when grown on trees in pots, and 

 also of unusual excellence ; we have seen them weighing a 

 pound, or more. The Easter Beurr6, so difficult to get in 

 perfection, produces fine specimens in the orchard-liouse. 



Apples. — Proljably few American cultivators will consider 

 the apple worthy of a very prominent position in the orchard- 

 house. Yet, we cannot consider one complete without 

 them; we do not, indeed, know of a more ornamental object 

 than a Red Astrachan, full of its brilliant red fruits. Con- 

 sidered simply for the fruit, tliey would not be feo important ; 

 but, to set off a collection of fifty or a hundred trees, a few 

 of the most beautiful apples are indispensable ; we name a 

 few of the best: — Red Astrachan, Primate, the Bough, Grav- 



